Alison Lurie, Pulitzer-winning novelist of mordant wit and boundless empathy, dies at 94

Alison Lurie, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who blended mordant wit and boundless empathy to chronicle the lives of women searching for self-knowledge and self-fulfillment while going about the business of everyday life, died Dec. 3 at a hospice facility in Ithaca, N.Y. She was 94.

The death was confirmed by her husband, Edward Hower. He did not cite a specific cause.